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How many use Dual Core-Dual Slot Motherboards?

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Anonymous
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How many use Dual Core-Dual Slot Motherboards?

Is there much advantage in going with 2 Dual core processors? Your 2
cents....I want speed but how much is enough for the price? I use INV11 and
run between 2 and 3 programs at a time. Inventor, my sheetmetal software and
it runs inventor in the background too. So there are usually 2 version of
Inventor running and it really bogs down what I have now. Dell Dimension
4700 3ghz with 2 gig ram and a Nvidia Quadro FX 1300 PCIe, Win XP Pro.

Thanks

Jerry Chasek
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Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

3ghz P4 was a bad chip (well all p4 for that matter)

Have you ever used a Dual Core system? You will be able to run 2
versions of Inventor with no problem. I don't know if I would waste the
money going with 4 processors. I mean you can really only do so much at
one time. Any dual core machine will be twice as good compared with what
you have now. Plus running 2 sessions of IV with only 2 GB of ram might
be cutting it a little tight. I would that up to at least 3. And if you
get a machine get at least a FX 1500, those cards are rockin compared
with the old FX 1300 & FX 1400

Jerry Chasek wrote:
> Is there much advantage in going with 2 Dual core processors? Your 2
> cents....I want speed but how much is enough for the price? I use INV11 and
> run between 2 and 3 programs at a time. Inventor, my sheetmetal software and
> it runs inventor in the background too. So there are usually 2 version of
> Inventor running and it really bogs down what I have now. Dell Dimension
> 4700 3ghz with 2 gig ram and a Nvidia Quadro FX 1300 PCIe, Win XP Pro.
>
> Thanks
>
> Jerry Chasek
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Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

On three different occasions I have had purchased the fastest bleeding
edge machine available. It has never taken more than a week before I
was saying "I sure wish this thing was faster!". I have never found the
price/performance barrier.

Jerry Chasek wrote:
> ....I want speed but how much is enough for the price?

--
Hal Gwin
Mechanical Designer
Caliper LifeSciences
(formerly Xenogen)

R11 Pro SP2
XP Pro SP2
Dell Precision 650
Dual 2.66 GHz Xeon
3 GB DDR
Quadro4 900 XGL
nVidia 6.14.10.8426 w/registry update
Dell UltraSharp 24" Widescreen LCD
Message 4 of 7
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

I hear ya cluckin! I believe I would be ok going with the single core, but
like Hal said, in a month I wish it was faster. I am going to go with a
better card, you think the 1500? I haven't ssen the specs on that one
compared to the 1300, I'll have to look it up. Thanks
Jerry

"Hal Gwin" wrote in message
news:5344122@discussion.autodesk.com...
On three different occasions I have had purchased the fastest bleeding
edge machine available. It has never taken more than a week before I
was saying "I sure wish this thing was faster!". I have never found the
price/performance barrier.

Jerry Chasek wrote:
> ....I want speed but how much is enough for the price?

--
Hal Gwin
Mechanical Designer
Caliper LifeSciences
(formerly Xenogen)

R11 Pro SP2
XP Pro SP2
Dell Precision 650
Dual 2.66 GHz Xeon
3 GB DDR
Quadro4 900 XGL
nVidia 6.14.10.8426 w/registry update
Dell UltraSharp 24" Widescreen LCD
Message 5 of 7
swalton
in reply to: Anonymous

I have a dual Xeon system with hyperthreading. I can load up one logical processor with IV11 sp2 very easly. I then can run ProE to work on projects for other clients. I have not been able to run two sessions of IV sucessfully. I can start two sessions, but because one session is running flat out for 45 min to 1 hour to open a drawing, the second session can not get the resources it needs to allow me to work in it. The error message says something about the server being busy.

Autodesk admits that it takes them 45 min to 1 hour to open the same dataset.

My system specs
dell 670 workstation
2 2.8 Ghz Xeons
3 GB Ram
FX4500 video card.

Steve Walton
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Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

I have a 670 with dual Xeon's and SCSI drives as well, thought it was fast
enough for about 1-2 weeks as well. I run IV and Algor for FEA. There's no
such thing as to fast. As the line from the movie "I feel the need for
speed", some of my FEA models now only take 20-30 minutes from 40-60m, still
lots of room for improvement. Then we just run larger models, with finer
meshes. We will just keep pushing, because we can and will. That's what we
do.

Blair

"Jerry Chasek" wrote in message
news:5344103@discussion.autodesk.com...
I hear ya cluckin! I believe I would be ok going with the single core, but
like Hal said, in a month I wish it was faster. I am going to go with a
better card, you think the 1500? I haven't ssen the specs on that one
compared to the 1300, I'll have to look it up. Thanks
Jerry

"Hal Gwin" wrote in message
news:5344122@discussion.autodesk.com...
On three different occasions I have had purchased the fastest bleeding
edge machine available. It has never taken more than a week before I
was saying "I sure wish this thing was faster!". I have never found the
price/performance barrier.

Jerry Chasek wrote:
> ....I want speed but how much is enough for the price?

--
Hal Gwin
Mechanical Designer
Caliper LifeSciences
(formerly Xenogen)

R11 Pro SP2
XP Pro SP2
Dell Precision 650
Dual 2.66 GHz Xeon
3 GB DDR
Quadro4 900 XGL
nVidia 6.14.10.8426 w/registry update
Dell UltraSharp 24" Widescreen LCD
Message 7 of 7
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

Blair Stunder wrote:
We will just keep pushing, because we can and will. That's what we
> do.

Well that will never change, as humans, we always need more.

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